Motion Picture Comics (1950) comic books 1952
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Issue #108
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Photo cover features John Derek and Jody Lawrance. Story by Leo Dorfman, from the screenplay by Ralph Gilbert Bettison and George Bruce. Fawcett presents adaptations of popular movies of the 1950s in comics form. This issue is based on the 1951 Columbia film Mask of the Avenger, a loose adaptation of The Count of Monte Cristo. Renatu, an Italian nobleman, loses his father during the European revolutions of 1848. Vowing revenge, he plots against the corrupt local military governor, and learns of a planned invasion by the Austrian military. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.
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Issue #109
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Photo cover features Allan "Rocky" Lane. Story by Leo Dorfman, from the screenplay by M. Coates Webster. Art by Werner Roth. Fawcett presents adaptations of popular movies of the 1950s in comics form. This issue is based on Rough Riders of Durango, a 1951 Republic B-movie western starring Allan "Rocky" Lane. Marshal Rocky Lane intervenes when a corrupt banker plans to foreclose on ranchers who have been targeted by outlaw raids. Rocky suspects that seemingly blameless harness-maker Blake is the secret head of the outlaw gang, working in cahoots with the banker. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.
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Issue #110
- Paper: Cream to off white
- Label #1014102001
- Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout.
$150.00
View scan- 2" Cumulative spine split. Cover detached at one staple and coming loose at the other. Water damage.
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Photo cover features Richard Derr and Barbara Rush. Story by Leo Dorfman, from the screenplay by Sydney Boehm. Art by George Evans and Al Williamson. Fawcett presents adaptations of popular movies of the 1950s in comics form. This issue is based on George Pal's 1951 science fiction epic When Worlds Collide. When scientists discover that a "rogue star" is on a collision course with Earth, humanity faces the coming destruction with blind panic. However, an experimental rocket ship may be able to carry a select group of survivors to a new world. This adaptation features art by comics and science-fiction legends George Evans and Al Williamson, who even provide themselves a cameo in the comic. Plus photo stills from the film. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.
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Issue #111
$80.00
View scans- Paper: Cream to off white
- Label #1447401006
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Photo cover features Lash LaRue. Story by Leo Dorfman, from the screenplay by Maurice Tombragel and June Carr. Fawcett presents adaptations of popular movies of the 1950s in comics form. This issue is based on The Vanishing Outpost, a 1951 Monogram Western starring Lash LaRue. Marshal LaRue and his sidekick Fuzzy meet Walker, a Pinkerton detective, while disciplining the rowdy barflies in a saloon. Walker enlists their help in tracking down the outlaw gang that murdered his partner. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.
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Issue #112
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Photo cover. Based on Columbia Pictures' 1952 release, "Brave Warrior" starring Jon Hall, Jay Silverheels, Christine Larson, and Michael Ansara. "Brave Warrior"; In Indiana of the early 1800s, conflict once again arises between the United States and Great Britain over territory and boundaries; Each side endeavors to gain the support of the Shawnee Indian tribes in the area; Governor William Henry Harrison enlists the aid of Steve Ruddell, whose friendship with the Shawnee chief Tecumseh goes back to childhood; Tecumseh's leadership of the Shawnee is contested by his brother, known as The Prophet, who sides with the British; Tecumseh, who grew up as a childhood playmate of Steve and of Laura McGregor, loves Steve as a brother and hopes to marry Laura; But Laura is in love with Steve. Laura's father, Shayne McGregor, secretly leads local support of the British against the Americans, even though it risks the life and love of his daughter; Everything comes to a head at the battle of Tippecanoe. 36 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.
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Issue #113
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Photo cover features George Murphy, Virginia Gilmore and Finlay Currie. Story by Leo Dorfman, from the screenplay by Leo Rosten, et al. Fawcett presents adaptations of popular movies of the 1950s in comics form. This issue is based on Walk East on Beacon, a 1952 spy drama/ film noir starring George Murphy, Finlay Currie and Virginia Gilmore. A federal agent investigating a Soviet spy ring discovers that they are blackmailing a scientist who is working on a top-secret space program. The film, in turn, is based on a magazine article by J. Edgar Hoover, making this the rare comic with ties to the long-running head of the FBI. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.
